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The Internal Market Bill, giving government the power to override parts of the Brexit agreement with the EU, passed its first hurdle in a late night Commons vote. Adam and Laura digest the details of the dramatic day at Westminster.
And is there life on Venus?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | There is such big news from space and specifically the planet Venus that there is a special |
| 0:10.1 | edition of the Sky at Night available on I Player. It also gives us a great |
| 0:15.6 | excuse to play this clip of this guy. All in all the planet of love is most |
| 0:20.9 | certainly not the kind of place we expected it to be. It's very far from being welcoming. |
| 0:25.0 | In fact, it's probably the most hostile world we know. |
| 0:28.0 | And anyone who goes down to the surface and looks at that somba landscape and goes out of a spacecraft unprotected is going to be |
| 0:34.8 | squashed, fried, poisoned and corroded all at once. |
| 0:38.4 | Oh, the original star of the sky at night Sir Patrick Moore. |
| 0:41.4 | Well, the updated version we're going to get is from |
| 0:43.8 | Professor Jane Grieves from Cardiff University who's the one who's made the |
| 0:47.3 | amazing discovery on Venus. Professor Grieves, what have you discovered on |
| 0:52.1 | Venus? |
| 0:53.0 | Well, he was quite right about the surface, but what we've discovered in the clouds is traces of the |
| 0:58.4 | gascal phosphine, which on earth is made by bacteria that hang out in these oxygen-free places. |
| 1:04.4 | And so we have a hint that perhaps these high clouds on Venus are |
| 1:08.3 | harboring something like bacteria, which is alive today. |
| 1:11.5 | We're not talking about the past. It's hanging out there now. |
| 1:14.0 | Wow. So that this phosphine could only have come or probably came from another living thing. |
| 1:21.0 | Yeah, we did a lot of calculations about working out if you could get it from volcanoes or meteors or some kind of weird effect of the sun and turn out you couldn't. So, well, I'm certainly backing the idea of life, but there's quite a way to go on that yet. |
| 1:35.5 | And this is all based on observations by amazing telescopes rather than by some probes |
| 1:40.8 | scoping something out of the atmosphere. |
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